Colorful Circles
Parameters
This is a random simulation of colorful circles. Each frame represents a “year” and the simulation last 1,000 years.
Growth
Each circle grows by 1 unit each year and increase by 1 in terms of “age” . At initialization each circle have ages/sizes between 1 and 5.
Death
However there is a chance that each circle will “die off”. The odds that a circle dies off is equivalent to age in age + lifespan. In this simulation the lifespan is 50 years. That is, at an age of 50 the colorful circles have a 50% of dying off. Circles of age 1 will not die off.
Color
At initialization, each colorful circle is assigned a random color from the RGB colorspace. These colors scale between 0 and 1 and represent the percent that a color is made up of R, G and B.
Replication
In this simulation there is a 12% chance in each year that a colorful circle and it nearest neighbor will produce an offspring. The offspring will:
have a size of 1
have an age of 1
the average position of the parents plus some error
Offspring color
Offspring will have the average color (in terms of RGB) of the two parent circles. However, there is a chance, that this color will change. Specifically, for each color (R, G, and B) there is a chance equivalent to the strength of each color that that color will become up to 20% stronger, while the other colors will become 20% weaker. That is, strong greens are likely to become stronger green (and less red, and less blue).